Mr Beast teases \u201ca lot more to come\u201d after reaching Team Trees goal YouTuber and philanthropist Jimmy \u201cMr Beast\u201d Donaldson reached his goal of planting 20 million trees on December 19 \u2014 but his viral environmental initiative is far from over. After smashing his goal at the beginning of the month, the YouTuber returned on December 28 for an extra announcement regarding his massive undertaking. Rather than taking the credit for reaching such a prestigious goal, Mr Beast thanked every person who donated to the cause, claiming that Team Trees had grown far beyond his own brand. \u201cI want to on the record say that I know I\u2019ll get most of the credit for Team Trees, but I really shouldn\u2019t,\u201d he began. \u201cThis all started when I hit 20 million subscribers. As a joke, we were like, \u2018Let\u2019s plant 20 million trees!\u2019 Team Trees may have started with me, but it definitely outgrew me.\u201d The YouTuber even revealed that over 500,000 unique donators had contributed to the cause \u2014 people who he asked viewers to thank for their efforts in meeting the Team Trees goal. That\u2019s not all: it looks like there\u2019s more in store for Team Trees than was originally intended, with Mr Beast hinting at a yearly recurrence of the charitable project in the spirit of forest preservation. Read More: Top 10 funniest Twitch clips of 2019 – \u201cYeah, Team Trees does end soon, but I\u2019d love to make this a yearly thing,\u201d he continued. \u201cThere are a lot of problems in this world, and if once a year, we can get the entire internet together to try to make a change, then I think that\u2019s amazing, and I think it\u2019s worth doing.\u201d Thus far, Mr Beast\u2019s Team Trees challenge has managed to plant 20,820,194 trees \u2014 enough to encircle the entire planet. Receiving help from the likes of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and even Shopify\u2019s Tobias L\u00fctke, Mr Beast was able to crush his goal before 2020 arrived \u2014 a goal that started out as a mere joke, which has since expanded to become one of the most widespread positive changes in internet history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mr Beast teases \u201ca lot more to come\u201d after reaching Team Trees goal YouTuber and philanthropist Jimmy \u201cMr Beast\u201d Donaldson reached his goal of planting 20 million trees on December 19 \u2014 but his viral environmental initiative is far from over. After smashing his goal at the beginning of the month, the YouTuber returned on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}